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Thursday, 19 March 2015

This was and still is one of those perfect weather days in Hout Bay, South Africa.

Click on the picture to enlarge it, the camera is a Canon G11 digital.

I have posted similar pictures of the same car in recent months the difference today is that the car has been sprayed all over now, its still not finished but is now a driving car and all systems such as lights, horn and wipers now work.

A few years ago there was a considerable amount of
restoration / rebuilding of wooden trawlers being carried on in Hout Bay
harbour by skilled craftsmen in this dying trade. Is that activity still alive?
There remain scores of wooden fishing craft in the Cape, so who re-planks and
repairs them? I used to enjoy watching those craftsmen (mostly Coloured folk)
building those trawlers at Louw & Halvorsen's boatyard in Table Bay. During
my naval architecture practical training I was privileged to have conducted
inclining tests on two of their newbuildings, one of which was 72 ft in length
and the largest then built. The owner was Mr. Johnny Eigelaar, head of a noted
fishing family of Veldrif. Have you ever handled an adze - used to shape solid
oak frames? The craftsmen could shape those big frames to within millimetres.

Yet another of Hout Bays wrecks and one that has been taking valuable mooring space is now under tow by a large tug.

Click on the image for a better view.

We are told that the Bressay Bank has been sold to the Navy as a floating target?

Roy

As published in 2014 in Traweler Herritage.

GOOD BYE "BRESSAY
BANK"!Pictured below on Saturday 14 March 2014 at Hout Bay is
the 156 foot "Bressay Bank" who had been laying idle inside Hout Bay harbour for
almost 20 years, however it is now destined to be towed away by the S.A. Navy.
The "Bressay Bank" will be used for a target practising exercise to be conducted
by the S.A. Navy. The "Bressay Bank" also formerly known as the "Pam Arlene D",
a former South Coast lobster boat owned by Chapmans Peak Fisheries in days gone
by. The "Bressay Bank" was built in 1960 in Poland.

Roys Hillman Imp Years

Started some years back,the first blog was intended to carry the CNC ply and epoxy boat kits only.Then other items slipped in,it soon became a potted history of Roys past life,some of it anyway.

There have been many car projects in the past and maybe in the future. So recently a brand new blog was started to open a few doors to Roys history with the cars he has known.

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This may have been a Continent at one time,thanks to Justin for the picture,which is signed in the lower right hand corner but I can not make out who the artist is."John Pettifor"?

Superform bending ply applications

We originally thought the boat trade would be our main target area but we now find the use has spread across the board and many shop and office fitters use it,its used on a large scale by furniture manufacturers too,

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Roy Mc Bride

working class trades person,broom sweeper and potato picker,apprentice Joiner,master carpenter,emigrant,shopfitter,interior designer,disco dj,race car builder and driver,engine rebuild specialist,boat designer and builder,traveled to twenty nine countries,married to a surfing families daughter,two great children, three grand children,two boys and one girl,Ben,Luke and Holly,sailed the South Atlantic three times,twice on my own yachts,founded a timber retail store,importer and exporter,cnc cut boat and car kit maker,working with the Hillman Imp and derivitives for 47 years,more or less in that order.yes,still crazy after all these years!